Valeh, a member of a leftist organization, is arrested by the SAVAK and sentenced to death. In prison, he reconsiders his relationships with members of his political cell, and begins to doubt the validity of the ideas for which he is condemned. At the same time, his comrades pressure him to make a sacrifice for their cause, and his beloved wife experiences personal problems and economic hardships.

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...

When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. I...

Crotchety retired doctor Isak Borg travels from Stockholm to Lund, Sweden, with his pregnant and unh...

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane lif...

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, g...

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among th...

When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated ...

A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woma...

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...

A pastor of a small church in upstate New York starts to spiral out of control after a soul-shaking ...

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a la...

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufr...

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a...

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upp...

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but als...